CNN article on problems in Air Travel, as seen by FAA

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:15:50 GMT, Marty Shapiro
wrote:

(John Kulp) wrote in
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:55:17 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Marty Shapiro writes:

You don't have to constantly keep your hands on the controls of an
aircraft even a light aircraft without an autopilot. There is a
reason aircraft control surfaces have trim capability, you moron.

There's a reason autopilots were developed, namely, that it's very
tiring to hold the controls for hours and hours. It's true that you
need not grip them continously, but neither can you ignore them for
very long if you have no autopilot.

This babbling idiot is going to continue posting this nonsense as long
as anyone keeps responding to his nonsense. So I, for one, am just
going to stop.

In r.a.p, he's not worth the cost of the electrons to reply to. But
in rec.travel.air, he has an audience which has a large percentage of non-
pilots and his outright falsehoods need to be corrected. I missed the
cross to r.a.p or would have deleted that in my reply.

Perhaps, but if they choose to listen to has babble over those of
experience pilots, there isn't anything one could do anyway. A
reasonable number of responses makes sense, but, at some point, where
he just keeps babbling nonsense it becomes a waste of time. The truth
will have already been put out and he will still be babbling.